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Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains

Article URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/29/markets/yen-160-dollar-intervention/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504352

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

“I just chose words carefully”

Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503601

Points: 222

# Comments: 55

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.

Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you […]

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

Article URL: https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502611

Points: 50

# Comments: 14

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502214

Points: 71

# Comments: 12

Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a […]

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

Article URL: https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501611

Points: 64

# Comments: 33

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.